Law&Crime Sidebar - ‘He Was Getting Threats’: YNW Melly’s Manager 100k Track Tells All

Episode Date: July 14, 2023

YNW Melly’s manager, 100k Track, offers background information on the rapper and his opinions on the double murder case. “They got the wrong person,” Jameson Francois said after explaining why he believes Melly is “far from a murderer.” The Law&Crime Network’s Angenette Levy gets the details from Francois.LAW&CRIME SIDEBAR PRODUCTION:YouTube Management - Bobby SzokePodcasting - Sam GoldbergWriting & Video Editing - Michael DeiningerGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSocial Media Management - Vanessa Bein & Kiera BronsonSUBSCRIBE TO OUR OTHER PODCASTS:Court JunkieThey Walk Among AmericaDevil In The DormThe Disturbing TruthSpeaking FreelyLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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will keep you on the edge of your seat. Don't let your fears take hold of you as you dive into this addictive series. Love thrillers with a paranormal twist? The entire Oracle trilogy is available on Audible. Listen now on Audible. I'm going to be a little bit biased because, you know what I'm saying, Melly is innocent and been innocent ever since it started. You know what I'm saying? He would not commit no crimes like that, no heinous crimes like that. that. YNW. Melly's manager, 100K track talks about his client as he faces double murder charges in the deaths of his friends. The state's case coming to a conclusion soon. I'm Janette Levy. Welcome to Law and Crimes Sidebar podcast. Before the week ended in the YNW Melly murder trial, things came to a close early because attorneys on both sides became ill. The name of Mellie's manager, Jamison, France, Sua, who goes by 100K track, came up several times during the week, particularly when it came to transfers of money to Melly after the homicides. Mellie faces the possibility of the death penalty

if convicted of the October 2018 murders of his friends and fellow rappers, Chris Thomas, who went by YNW Juv Juvie and Anthony Williams, known as YNW Sack Chaser. His co-defendant Cortland Henry, who went by YNW. Bortland, will go to trial in October. I asked Track to discuss some of what's happened in the trial so far, but he said at this time he wanted to stay away from that since the case is ongoing. He started representing Melly in 2017. Track met Mellie when the latter was serving time in jail. We talked about where he was in the hours before the murders. I was home that whole day playing video games, playing 2K. I think it was 2K, 20-something or 2K-19.

I was just playing video games the whole day. Track wasn't in the recording studio that night. I asked him how he found out that Juvian Sack had been killed. The next day in the morning, I got a call about it. It was very heartbroken. I was very confused. And I didn't know what was happening. So we went to go see him.

He already had his mom. couple other people there and you know just basically was just trying to pull it together and stuff like that he had a lot of he had a lot of activities after like shows and video shoots and other things and I personally my I wanted to just shut everything down and just you know give some time but you know he but that situation he didn't really want to be at a standstill his mind was all over the place so he wanted to keep working just to kind of like keep his mind off it and just keep moving. So it was very tough day. That was a tough day.

Text messages shown during the trial show that Mellie sent a pin to Fredo Bang, who then raced to pick Mellie up after the murders. The defense has tried to cast doubt on whether it was Mellie using that phone that ends in the number 9807. Portland claimed to police that they'd all been victims of a drive-by. Tracks said he saw Mellie that morning. Was that Fredo Bang's house? Was he there? I'm not sure if I went to his house or Fredo house honestly because it was so long ago but I remember his family was at his house went to his house too so it was like a little bit everybody was a little bit in different places and things like that I don't remember exactly

where I met him but because I did go to both house I wouldn't so I really don't remember which one sack and JV were killed after leaving the recording studio Portland arrived at the hospital at 4.35 a.m. This week, prosecutors played a video of Mellie and Portland at a video shoot later that day. Track was there. He was fucked up, man. Like, you know, that was like I said,

I was a rough, rough morning and a rough day. And I'm very surprised and, you know what I'm saying? And I definitely commend him for just being able to just even going to the video shooting and being professional and doing what he had to do. because that those commitments was done way like prior before the incident those you know deposits was paid and and you know and it was either a refund back the money and funds and things like that or you know be the what he got to do and just man up and do it and he was

able to put himself together and get it done but the whole day man it was it was it was a very like sad sad day like you could tell the atmosphere was was down you know his energy was down he was trying to pick himself back up, trying to, you know, block it and just be professional into what he got to do. But you could tell he was hurting really bad. So it was really devastated. There was like a really big bodyguard with him that day, or at least it looked like a bodyguard. The woman in the videos said it was. I mean, were you, did you hire the bodyguard or did he always have security?

Or were you worried for his safety? I always have, I always hire security and bodyguards whenever we're doing anything public. If it's a show or a video shoot or anything that's going to be marketed or promoted to the public, we always hire security and things like that. That's part of my job to make sure he's safe and have those or have someone around him that could make sure he's safe. YNW. Bortland told police that this was a drive-by shooting. That begs the question, who would want to hurt Mellie and his friends? Did anybody ever threaten him and the other guys before this happened?

You know, Bortland said this was a drive-by. When you're in the limelight and you're making money and things like that, you're going to receive hate. You're going to receive, you know, dead threats. You're going to receive things from everywhere, from people you know, people you don't know. People who probably feel obligated or feel, you know what I'm saying, entitled to things. People who might not even know you from the kind of pain and just don't like you. So, you know, as an entertainer, your life is always, you know, life is always being threatened by somebody or someone. So I'm pretty sure.

But he always handled himself, you know what I'm saying? Well, he always makes sure that he, you know, do what he got to do in and out. You know, he never lagged and never put himself in a place, you know, for stuff that had to happen. So was he getting threats? I'm pretty sure he was. I mean, I get threats. Entertainers get threats. I got artists now that get threats and they're not even as big as he was.

So, yeah, 100% he was getting threats. I mean, I think that comes with this game, though. It comes with the money, comes with the fame. It comes with people wanting to be in your own, in your shoes, or just don't like you for no reason. I think that's standard when it comes. It's part of the application. The lead detective on the case, Mark Moretti,

read text messages to the jury in which Sack Chaser seemed angry at Mellie's mom, Jamie King. Something appeared to be going on in the months leading up to the murders. At one point, Meli told Sack that she had sold her soul and called his mother many names. Then she keep telling people about me, and I'm not even worried about her, bro. I'm trying to bulldo me, why, and that's always worried about me, and what's you talking about how you're going to leave, and we can't even get in the gate without you be on some crazy, Some crazy .

What page is that? Forty-nine, Mr. Howard. And the response on August 30th, 2018, 12.41 p.m. from the 9807. Like, I don't even be knowing what the

to say. No-mo. She do out of the blue. She, the devil. For real. She's crazy. I own got to do with it no more. If you all kill her, bro, she ain't my mama. She stole her soul. People have miscommunications and sometimes arguments,

but it was never to a point where it was nothing, nothing serious, you know? At the end of the day, that's his mother. And we all know that, from Sack to, you know, his friends, to wherever, they always gonna have the utmost respect for her. certain things, you know, as a mother, she may not like or find appropriate. You know, that's her right, too, as mother.

But anything that happened, like, prior with them, there was always, it was always at shows together. It was always, you know, positive. It was always a good time. So I wouldn't say there was anything deeply growing. I would say they had miscommunications sometimes, and, you know, they didn't see out of eye, but that's everybody. Zach and Jamie? Zach, Jamie, Jamie, his mom, you know what I'm saying? I feel like everybody go through when you're together and you're doing something, you know,

you're going to have, you're going to have things happen where you don't agree with certain things and stuff like that. So I feel like that's normal. But I'm saying I don't think it was nothing in depth where it was like that was out to get each other. It wasn't, it was never that serious. Okay, because Sack was saying in one of them something about it. I feel like you guys are up to something or something like that. So I didn't know if there was some bad blood there. And there was like a video that Jamie put on YouTube or something where she said Sack threatened her.

I don't think it was never no bad blood because we would have Sunday dinners at the house. Everybody would be eating, food, talking, having a good time. So I don't feel like it was never no bad blood. Like I said, there was probably times where they didn't see out of eye and maybe took the wrong approach. but that's us learning and people not realizing certain things live forever on the internet but it was never that intention like where it was bad blood like I said these we they would see each other through shows and events and dinner and things like that should come cook at the house and so it was never it was never that serious that you know portland said this was a drive-by have you ever thought

about who would have done something like this it would have been I mean it would have been so much people, you know what I'm saying? Like, not, it would have been, it could have been so much people, because, like, at the end the day, this man was, like, you know, had jewelry, you know, had a large sum of money and things like that and I don't know

where it could have came from, but I do know it came from somewhere and, you know, maybe one day we use our resources to find out who really did it and bring justice to the second jewelry and the victims. There's, the prosecution has said, you know,

JV and SAC were, there was shots fired into the car after they were already dead and stuff like that. People, some people think Bortland did this. Do you have any thoughts on that? I know one thing. You got two innocent people fighting for their life. You got two deceased, you know what I'm saying, friends and family members that's unfortunately lost their life in the situation. And at the end of the day, justice do need to be served. You know, I understand that completely. But I feel like everybody from state to the prosecution, they're looking in the wrong direction because at the end of the day,

they got two people in there and fighting for their life that did nothing but love and appreciate, you know what I'm saying? Those are two individuals. So, no, I don't think anything like that at all. Mellie has talked in interviews about having two personalities and maybe even more, but specifically he has talked about Mellie and Melvin. I asked track about whether Mellie truly believes he has two personalities or whether it's part of his act. I mean, if he had two personalities for her, I think that would have been way before, you know, I'm saying the music and all that stuff.

But now the Melvin persona, you know, come from just him being creative. and just giving people something to be entertained by and stuff like that. You know, certain records that he would do, it would be love songs. You know, he would put that as melody in a certain record that be more edge and street. They put on the Melvin. I mean, you have a lot of entertainers that did this in the past. You got Beyonce with sorts of fears. You got T.I. with TI with TI.

No, you got a lot of people that did that moniker before when they have two personalities when they come to the music. I feel like it's really just that, just entertainment. as far as the other questions and stuff like that with the gun and things like that you know that's something that you would have to speak to him about i'm saying like i don't really never really went in depth with him on how he you know with that whole situation i know he did it on the on the documentary and things like that but you know i'm saying we never really got into it talked about it and stuff like that did he um you know in the text and stuff he was asking for a glock before the murders happened was that because of the threats or did he

always carry a gun or do you know anything about that? No, I've seen that same time you've seen it. He always had security and always make sure he was protected even before the incident. After the incident, you know, that's my job and my company job is to make sure he's moving with license security that could make sure he's not getting harm or hurt and make it back home safe. I do that for all my clients. So he personally never needed anything in that nature when it comes to the business with me and things like that.

If Mellie gets out, what's in the future? Everything, the world, every continent, every pieces of the, everywhere in the States. That's the plan. And what about Bortland? Same thing. No, they took five years of these kids' life, man. Five years is a long time. So hopefully they could get that back every year, tenfolds.

It's clear that track and Mellie have been. become incredibly close over the years. Right now, they're not allowed to talk to one another. Mellie's phone privileges from jail have been revoked. That's it for this edition of Law and Crimes Sidebar podcast. You can listen to and download Sidebar on Apple, Spotify, Google, and wherever else you get your podcast. And of course, you can always watch it on Law and Crimes YouTube channel. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy, and we will see you next time. You can binge all episodes of this law and crime series ad free right now on Wondery Plus.

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